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Forty Days of Lucien

Thursday morning, beautiful sunrise, coffee is warm and sweet, feeling good! So why not continue these good vibrations with a super funky 7 O CLOCK Sample!

I pulled today's sample from a wonderful 70s Jazz-Funk album entitled WINDOWS OF THE MIND. Billy Brooks put this album out on Crossover Records in 1974. This album is full of funky jazz cuts, but few as funky as the last track on the album FORTY DAYS.

I guess the fellas from A TRIBE CALLED QUEST agree with me on this one. For their debut album PEOPLE'S INSTINCTIVE TRAVELS AND THE PATHS OF RHYTHM, the fellas used this cut for the story book rap, LUCK OF LUCIEN.

Woke up to some pretty sad music news today,Rodney “Skip” Bryce, better known as as DJ E-Z Rock , has died at 46. The breakout hit "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock helped rap music to find it's way into the global pop phenomenon...

This week on the Seven O'Clock Sample, we have been looking at the music of the one and only BIZ MARKIE. His biggest hit "JUST A FRIEND" was his most successful Pop single, reaching the #9 position on the Billboard charts. Released in...

This week on the Seven O'Clock Sample, we look at the music of BIZ MARKIE. A member of the JUICE CREW, Biz had a lot of hits on Cold Chillin' Records in the late 1980s. His album GOIN' OFF, contained one of his biggest hits, "Nobody Beats...